Tool for setting puncture-closures.



Nm 892,183. YATENTED JUNE 30, 1908.

I. H. RAND.

TOOL FOR SETTING PUNCTURE GLOSURES. APPLICATION FILED JAN.28.1908.

,JRE/@761501 ture closer toward the other, and one at A least of said aws having a recess in its clampn Ving surface adaptedto receive th'e end of the post of the puncture closer, as the jaws approach each other to clamp the head plates. f

2. A tool for setting a puncture closer of the character described having a stift' central post and a pair of head plates to be flexed into gripping relation wit each other, coniprising a air of relatively movable jaws, one at least o said jaws having a `concave clamping surface adapted to bend the periphery of one of the head plates of the puncture closer toward the other, each jaw having a recess in its clamping surface adapted to receive the end of the postof the puncture closer as the laws approach eachother to clamp the head plates.

3. A tool for setting a puncture closer of the character described having a stiff central post and a pair of head plates to be exed into gripping relation with each other, coln prising a pair of relativeljr movable-jaws, one atleast of said jaws having a concave clamp ing surface ada ted to bend the peripheryc one of the hea plates of the puncture closer 'aa toward the other, each aw having a recess in its clamping surface adapted to receive the end of the post of the puncture closer as the jaws approach eachg'otner to clamp the head plates, and one ofi said recesses having aas rounded or beveleddge.

toward the other, each jaw having a recess, 4a

in its clarn ing surface adapted to receive' the end of t 1e post of the puncture closer as.

the jaws approach each 'other to' clam the head plates, and one 0f said recesses eing/ of larger diameter than the other. f 5o' Signed by me at Boston, Massachusetts. f this 27th day of January 1908; Y

JAMES H. RANB.

TWitnesses: j

ROBERT CUsHMAN, p GHARLES D. WooDBEItRY. 

